Today's News

We’re booked. In late July it’ll be our turn to fly across the Atlantic to visit our son, Stanley Adam, wife Lizbeth, and daughters Ellen, 3, and June, 5 months old.

It’s our exchange for their having flown here; they’re in Washington, D.C, visiting one of my nephews, and they were due in Albuquerque on Tuesday night, a few hours after the deadline for this column.

ALBUQUERQUE — Johnny Tapia, the five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead Sunday at his Albuquerque home. He was 45.

Authorities were called to the house at about 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, Albuquerque police spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The death didn’t appear to be suspicious, he said.

Logging three insurance runs in the eighth inning, then withstanding a three-run Oklahoma City rally in the top of the ninth, the Albuquerque Isotopes pulled out a second straight win over the RedHawks by an identical 11-9 score Monday at Isotopes Park.

That made it a successful weekend for rehabbing Los Angeles Dodger stars Matt Kemp and Juan Rivera, who played for Albuquerque both Sunday and Monday on their way back to the parent club in L.A.

Albuquerque (30-22) got good contributions from both Kemp and Rivera as they won the Oklahoma City series 3-1.

A little more than a year ago, the lives of Frank Romero and Gene Hern drew to a horrific end in a trench off Cinder Road and Palo Verde.

On Friday, their families, Gov. Susana Martinez and about 200 others gathered at the site to unveil a memorial and to recognize them as public servants who unwittingly and unknowingly gave their lives for the safety of others.

The results were announced Thursday evening, minutes after the voting concluded. The news drew a thunderous applause from Quintana’s supporters. Quintana and Ulibarri then walked toward one another and shook hands.